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Mary Epworth puts out surprising new single
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 21 July 2017
Sunday Best has put out the second single from Mary Epworth’s new album, ‘Elytral’, which is due out in September. The new track is called ‘Surprise Yourself’ and was inspired by some good old fashioned writer’s block, or more how Epworth experimented her way out of the constraints of self-imposed expectations.
Don’t know what I mean? Well, here’s Epworth herself with an explanation. “The making of ‘Elytral’ started with what was probably writer’s block”, she says. “I felt stymied by my own expectations that what I had to write had to be important, life changing, or the greatest thing anyone would ever hear”.
She goes on: “I was stuck and felt powerless to create any new songs. Eventually I started to tinker with the bits of music that had been popping into my head, just treating it as play. I became out of my depth creatively, playing instruments I don’t usually play, relying less on other people to flesh things out and tell me that they made sense. I felt totally free as to where the song went. So this is a song about that process of freeing yourself from your own self-imposed limitations”.
‘Surprise Yourself’ here:
